Draft of a petition (P.Duk.inv. 217 V)

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Title: Draft of a petition, [348?]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Documentary papyri --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Petitions --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, three fragments of which two join,
mounted in glass, incomplete ; 11 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 10.6 x 23.1 cm.
14 lines.
Written along the fibers on the verso, the marginal
additions across the fibers. Written along the fibers
on the recto in Ammon's informal hand and inverse
to the main text on the verso.
Upper margin of 2 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm.; left
margin of 1.5 cm.; right margin of 3 cm.
P.Duk.inv. 217 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 217 V.
Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name Akhmim),
Egypt, written on papyrus. Written by Ammon, the
well-known scholastikos, or lawyer. Ammon protests
against abuse by an official, possibly Eugeneios,
an imperial secretary. Papyrus belongs to the archive
of Ammon. Recto has a draft of a petition to the
katholikos in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 217 R).
P.Duk.inv. 217 V joins P.Köln inv. 4547, which has
been on indefinite loan to Duke University since 1986.
In Greek.
Descriptive database available in repository.
Publication: The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis
(P.Ammon), ed. W.H. Willis and K. Maresch. I 17. Opladen 1997

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